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when you see them with pat robertson in virginia, there are other constituencies. when you see him with steve king in iowa, a conservative in touch with the tea party. that's important to governor romney. the poll, a lot of people question every poll. the reasons the numbers exist in our poll, the president now plus 6, after his convention, democratic intensity, enthusiasm, is up and republican enthusiasm is down a bit. yes, governor romney is still winning among independents but there has been at least a temporary enthusiasm shift in favor of the democrats. we'll see if it lasts. anderson, one more point. all throughout the democratic convention i was getting e-mails and phone calls saying democrats were overplaying their hand. in our new poll, look at the numbers within which candidate shares your value in the president has a 7-point advantage. you see heading into the conventions, two weeks ago before either convention it was essentialry a tie. at least at the moment nationally if the values talk at the democratic convention was supposed to hurt the president, c
when you see them with pat robertson in virginia, there are other constituencies. when you see him with steve king in iowa, a conservative in touch with the tea party. that's important to governor romney. the poll, a lot of people question every poll. the reasons the numbers exist in our poll, the president now plus 6, after his convention, democratic intensity, enthusiasm, is up and republican enthusiasm is down a bit. yes, governor romney is still winning among independents but there has been...
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there are downscale white voters, critical to the republican coalition in places like west virginia, in places like southern ohio. you go across the appalachian trail and down the ohio river, a lot of these voters could be republicans. i will make a personal note here. a lot of americans of all incomes have struggled the last few years and the risk for governor romney is that it's insulting to them. as a kid, my family was on food stamps for a few years when my dad got sick. we didn't feel entitled and we weren't victims and my father was pretty embarrassed about the whole thing. in the end my mother was grateful she was able to feed her kids. >> alice? >> well, i think john makes a very good point. but it's important to look at that speech he gave at that event in its full context, that he's talking about making sure that they're informed about the contrast between romney and obama, and what governor romney wants to do, he supports the middle class, whereas we heard from the president who supports redistribution of wealth. look what we have after almost four years. we have a shrinki
there are downscale white voters, critical to the republican coalition in places like west virginia, in places like southern ohio. you go across the appalachian trail and down the ohio river, a lot of these voters could be republicans. i will make a personal note here. a lot of americans of all incomes have struggled the last few years and the risk for governor romney is that it's insulting to them. as a kid, my family was on food stamps for a few years when my dad got sick. we didn't feel...
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battleground state. 7% in ohio and 5% in virginia. in each of these states they started to come back up. if you're going through the obama presidency. housing is a problem in the battleground states. >> and republicans are making the argument that president obama is to blame for the bleak economic picture including the housing market. how does the president respond to that? >> the answer has been, the overall economy, the housing crisis is part of that. these problems were in the making long before the president took office. they got worse. but the president helped to stabilize the situation. they point the steps he's taken shortly after he took office. two programs rolled out to help home owners struggling. they were supposed to help 9 million homeowners, own will a couple million were helped. nonetheless, there's something the president was doing, they point at. a $26 billion settlement with five big banks to help the homeowners, a dozen other programs the president rolled out as well. the short answer is, they believe the president
battleground state. 7% in ohio and 5% in virginia. in each of these states they started to come back up. if you're going through the obama presidency. housing is a problem in the battleground states. >> and republicans are making the argument that president obama is to blame for the bleak economic picture including the housing market. how does the president respond to that? >> the answer has been, the overall economy, the housing crisis is part of that. these problems were in the...
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. >> that was mitt romney in virginia, on saturday. campaigning with pat robertson suggesting that president obama was somehow planning to take god off the currency. in fairness. mitt romney opened up with three sentences about the jobless numbers and then got on the talk about job. then talked about president obama apolicy spends his time on a talking about the economy. when they asked what he was actually saying. the campaign manager certainly repeated the talking point. he said the subject has been the economy, is the economy and will be the economy. mitt romney doesn't want to change the subject. he wants to change the economy and that's what he's going to do as president. to be fair, fair enough. that's the message that they want us to get. but that's not all coming from the candidate on the campaign trail. here's governor romney today in ohio. >> when and if i become president of the united states. >> i will not take god out of my heart. i will not take god out of the public square and not out of the platform out of platform. /*.
. >> that was mitt romney in virginia, on saturday. campaigning with pat robertson suggesting that president obama was somehow planning to take god off the currency. in fairness. mitt romney opened up with three sentences about the jobless numbers and then got on the talk about job. then talked about president obama apolicy spends his time on a talking about the economy. when they asked what he was actually saying. the campaign manager certainly repeated the talking point. he said the...
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you see, unemployment's going down in ohio, down in iowa, down a bit in virginia, all key battlegrounds. if your state is yellow, that's bad news. nevada, a big battleground state. north carolina sort of bleak on that front, colorado. so if you look at the map this way, some states the president can make the case things are better. in others, it's a tougher sell. >> we've seen the trouble romney has had in some states, like ohio, to highlight how bad things are going, and in some states republicans are saying how well things are going. how does the romney campaign deal with that? >> it is a problem with the romney campaign. some of the republican governors like john kasich touting their state economies at the republican convention a short while ago. romney says it's because of the republican governors that the states are doing well, and the numbers romney campaign keeps going back, they keep coming back to 40 months of unemployment over 8%. 23 million people out of work or struggling to find employment. they say those are the numbers that matter. just the other day, anderson, the fed de
you see, unemployment's going down in ohio, down in iowa, down a bit in virginia, all key battlegrounds. if your state is yellow, that's bad news. nevada, a big battleground state. north carolina sort of bleak on that front, colorado. so if you look at the map this way, some states the president can make the case things are better. in others, it's a tougher sell. >> we've seen the trouble romney has had in some states, like ohio, to highlight how bad things are going, and in some states...